Personally I think the POTW shot in question was SO Last Year
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...=500&ppuser=40
No props required this was somebodies junk.
I take Chris's point about our countryside becoming littered with plastic and beer cans.
I must admit with a few of the POTW choices I have wondered what the novelty or appeal was. Yet another case of you can't please all the people all the time.